{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-686/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-686/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2020/686",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/686 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the approval of germinal product establishments and the traceability and animal health requirements for movements within the Union of germinal products of certain kept terrestrial animals (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-686",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Special rules for the cessation of activities of approved germinal product establishments for bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine animals",
  "text": "1. Where the operator of an approved germinal product establishment for bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine animals ceases its activity, that operator shall ensure that prior to the withdrawal date of the approval all consignments of semen, oocytes or embryos collected or produced and stored in that germinal product establishment have been moved:\n(a) to a germinal product storage centre for further storage; or\n(b) for reproduction purposes to an establishment where bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine or equine animals are kept; or\n(c) for safe disposal or use as animal by-products in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009.\n2. Where consignments of semen, oocytes or embryos are not moved from the approved germinal product establishment prior the withdrawal date of the approval as referred to in paragraph 1, such consignments shall not be moved to another Member State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/686/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:38.781688+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}